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Ken Salazar: “When one looks back at those conversations that took place in the Secretary of the Interior's office with Stewart Udall…”

On the recordJune 2, 2009
When one looks back at those conversations that took place in the Secretary of the Interior's office with Stewart Udall, you are left with a sense, given our fights together here to put funding into a Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), that there truly has been a breach of the trust with the American people relative to the investment of resources that we have gotten from the Earth, which belongs to the American people in the form of public lands.
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Ken Salazar
Democratic · Colorado
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Salazar reflects on past discussions about the Land and Water Conservation Fund and public trust.

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